Steve Bowman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 01:01:49PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > The strange part is that _some_ contrib packages are scattered > > across the 3 CDs, but not all of the packages. For example, lyx > > is _not_ there. Only 83 packages are included: > > I think you'll find that the ones that are missing depend on non-free. > Lyx for example depends on libforms0.89 . Apt is used by debian-cd to > set up the build and apt doesn't like broken dependencies. > > Steve
There will be some broken dependencies anyway if one uses the main 1st CD instead of the main+non-US/main CD. Without going into the debate of whether Debian should not promote contrib software that depends on non-free, it might be worse to pass off the striped-down contrib as the real one. I hope there's a very visible note somewhere telling users that the contrib section included for their convenience is incomplete. I guess I'll see when my CDs arrive (which I just ordered). Peter
